Best Singer in Trek
 

Warped, weird poll time. Note that we're talking about the singing voices of the characters, not the actors themselves.

Oh, and please no references to the album Golden Throats, okay?

Kevin Riley, of course. :D

References to whatnow?

You can look it up on Wikipedia, but suffice to say, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy sing on it.

Maybe here is a good place to ask - does anyone know where I could find 'Moonlight Becomes You', as sung by the holo-woman in First Contact?

Not sure. The song doesn't appear to be included in the soundtrack album, and the only album I can find that she has out under her own name doesn't have it, either.

http://www.juliemorgan.com/

http://cdbaby.com/cd/juliemorgan

Vic! Vic! Vic! Vic! Vic! Vic! Vic! Vic!

I love jazz.

[PS: Vic!]

I see that the holograms are neck-to-neck. Vic/Doc would've made an awesome crossover, wouldn't it? You know, bounce a signal through the wormhole and off the Gamma Quadrant array (which is closer to Delta, remember?), and let them bond? Think of the duets!

Wouldn't the First Contact album have that?

You'd think so, but apparently not.

Vic could hang, but have you ever heard a Classical musician attempt jazz? It's usually not pretty. (There's an expression: "He wouldn't swing if you hung him and gave him a push.")
I already stated above that it does not. Now you can see for yourself.

Hey, there are lots of things that would allow their musical styles to mesh! "Let's Get Together" comes to mind.

A freaky thought just struck me. What if Doc could replicate his mobile emitter, and he gave one to Vic? What would Vic do in the real world? Go on a music tour of Risa and Wrigley's Pleasure Planet?

And nearly all of them involve dragging Vic down to some lame, amateur level. Pass.
There are several songs by that title, and I'm not sure any of them are a good idea.

The sort of thing you're proposing might sound like a great idea to non-musicians; hearing it, they might even convince themselves that they liked it. Frankly, just the thought of it makes me cringe.

"Let's Get Together" as written by the Sherman Brothers and as sung by Hayley Mills. You know, Doc's tickling the ivories and Vic shows up with a sax. "Do you mind, I'm giving a concert!" Plus having Doc say "Hey al-li-gah-tah" would be great.

Urgh. I hate that expression. It makes me retch.
And he would do this... why, exactly?
Nate, you are a very strange person.

Don't get me started on the First Contact album. How did a movie with such a great score bungle the soundtrack album so badly? (sigh)

Shark, tread carefully. Yours truly is a classical and jazz clarinetist who most certainly can swing.

That's not jazz! That's croon!

I'm a strange person? You don't have the slightest idea.

"You are a sad, strange little man. You have my pity."

That don't mean a thing.

^ All you got to do is sing.

I haven't forgotten (I also do both, though not on that particular instrument) and I did say...
Usually. Not always. Stolzman pulls it off pretty well; Edgar Meyer can play damn near anything and sound great, and check out a German cellist named Wolfram Huschke some time. There are others, but I really don't think I need to remind you just how awkward and painfully square the overwhelming majority of classically-trained musicians are when they decide to "let their hair down" and play jazz, that poor, black-sheep relative of "serious" music.

I did, oh, call it seven years of concert band before I switched to stage band. Now I can't play straight eights notes anymore.

I'll bet it would still be a lot easier for you to get straight eighths down again than it would be for those "dotted-triplet figure = jazz :) " guys to go the other way. They've had rigid and exact subdivision drummed into their heads for so long that most of them wouldn't be able to get the feel of anything as abstract as swing if their very lives depended on it.

Somebody's bitter...

It makes no difference if its sweet or hot.

Sheesh, is it "mutate a thread as quickly as possible" week? :)

I also gotta ask why you guys don't create your own threads more often.

Now, where would be the fun in that?

The fun would be having more topics to post in.

I'm all for posting in more topics. I'm also all for annoying you. It's a tough decision to make.

You know, you're not the first person to find the idea of yanking my chain amusing. I guess I'm just that sort of person.

I think it's more that I'm the sort of person who finds the idea of annoying anybody amusing.

I tend to only create threads if I really have something to say, or I need help. Although really, 'I need help' should probably be my motto.

What was I saying? Oh right, tangential thread topics, and annoying Nate. Um... asparagus!

(thus proving the 'I need help' theory)

Best Singer in Trek! Well I voted Seven. Vic comes in second. I have no idea who Kevin Riley is (I hear you all shouting 'for shame'). Never heard Uhura sing. The rest I don't like, at all.

I only voted Seven over Vic because I personally prefer female singers.

Kevin Riley. He was a recurring background character in TOS, kinda like Barclay or Vorik. Proud Irishman. Bowling afficianado.

I never watched TOS. I honestly wouldn't be able to, not with the effects as they were. Riley sort of rings a bell.

All I know about TOS I learned on this site.

IJD will be along to lynch you shortly.

Then watch the restored version. The effects are much less painful.

Hmm... Maybe. I don't know how much luck I'd have finding it for hire, though. I'll try.

Ehh. After '60's/'70's Doctor Who, and the 90bn variations on the 'rubber and CSO' theme there, I personally find Shatner's...ahem...'acting' more brain-haemorrhage-inducing than the tacky special effects.

But ... the ... ACTING is part ... of the ... fun. :)

Oh, absolutely - much like the dialogue :D

Doesn't make it any less dumb, though ;)

Why do I get the feeling that I'd get about five minutes into the first episode before saying 'screw it' and just coming here to read the fivers?

Actually, I think I'll go do that now.